De twee dodelijke slachtoffers van een ernstig ongeluk met een auto aan de Westdijk bij Dirksland zijn een 33-jarige man uit Middelharnis en een 18-jarige man Herkingen. De oudste van de twee was de bestuurder, de ander de bijrijder. Dat heeft de politie maandagochtend bekend gemaakt.

OPINION European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control. AWS, like all American platforms, can't protect Airbus's crown jewels from Donnie the Data Burglar, so it's best to repatriate them sharpish. This by itself shows that digital sovereignty is a real commercial driver and not something concocted by Europe as some sort of virtue signal or a bargaining chip. Nobody would put sensitive data where the Russian or Chinese states could help themselves. America is now on that list. The details of the announcement are arresting too, with the critical list including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems. What isn't mentioned is supply chain management, which sure looks like a critical system from here considering that Airbus has 18,000 suppliers globally. This is a thorny problem, one that's far harder to bring home than even a 900-app migration. Supply chain management is all about moving data between companies, and of those 18,000 suppliers, 17,998 will be Microsoft shops. Even if the supply chain is managed through a lovely EU-hosted portal, all the supplier data will also live on those suppliers' systems. Airbus isn't ditching Microsoft any time soon because there's nowhere to go. Likewise Google productivity apps because the only place to go is Microsoft. It doesn't matter that all of the above is as vital to Airbus pushing the tin out of the door as anything else. There's no quick fix, and no medium-term fix either. Longer term is another matter, and Airbus's announcement will figure heavily in this. The other big lacuna in the announcement is AI. On the face of it, this is even more intractable. America is making a trillion-a-year gamble on developing frontier models and bit barn bonanzas, and if you want in, you have to be there. Thing is, Airbus doesn't want in. It has a six-pronged AI strategy, but none of those prongs involve agents or code generation or line-of-business automation. Knowledge extraction, support chatbots, decision support, flight automation – all things that can be built and deployed on-prem. Besides, would you even want your aircraft running code by Claude? We can't truly know the mind of Airbus from what it chooses to tell us, but it looks very much like it doesn't want AI in critical systems, and where that's unavoidable, it wants to do it itself. AI may, in time, become non-optional for businesses – much as productivity software and data interchange are now – yet for digital sovereignty to work, there has to be an EU-based market in both that can provide flight paths back home that corporates of all types can take. Airbus has shown that the cloud service market can work with digital sovereignty, and it did it the old-fashioned way by announcing a tendering process, in itself a market-making event. It could do the same elsewhere, but while even a big migration is a tasty target for a competent cloud service, there's no such sector for productivity and desktop stuff. Yes, yes, of course there's Linux and LibreOffice and all that, but there's no organization that can respond to a competitive tender request for a tightly specified Office/Workspace replacement. Nobody's done that before, which, for a risk-averse outfit like Airbus, is a big red flag. There are people who have the track record of managing large projects at that level, and there are people who understand building open source, but they don't live at the same address. The good thing about productivity software is the global market. Were Airbus and others to ask for tenders at a sufficiently large scale, the concept of a blue-chip startup made from safe hands is not only plausible but positively tempting. It would take cooperation between enterprises, which would be a big test of how seriously they take true digital sovereignty. On the plus side, building on open source means there are no secrets to shield, so American tools and American companies would both be welcome. Once there is a market in digitally sovereign software, it becomes much easier to look ahead at AI and other hard-to-escape aspects of the American digital hegemony. A full-fat, enterprise-grade software and services market will be a wonder to behold. It could also change a lot more than how Europe runs its digital affairs. Those in other countries, distrusting their government and fearful of persecution, will be welcome to enjoy the protection and liberties that European digital sovereignty can provide. Call it the Reverse Mayflower. As they used to say in America, you're welcome. ®

Museum Krona in Uden illustreert in de tentoonstelling ‘De Camino. De reis van je leven’ met middeleeuwse voorwerpen en moderne kunst de traditie én de hedendaagse beleving van de pelgrimage naar Santiago de Compostela.

Het aantal jongeren in de bijstand neemt al twaalf kwartalen op rij toe. Deskundigen noemen onder meer de invloed van sociale media als oorzaak. Die zorgt voor meer prestatiedruk, en vooral het luxe leven van influencers in Dubai doet jongeren aan zichzelf twijfelen.

The latest in our series of writers picking their most meaningful comfort watches is a tribute to the inspiring power of the 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation

When I think about what makes me feel good, it isn’t fantasy or escapism; it’s justice, morality and triumph – sizing up to a bully bigger than you and prevailing against the odds. I never fail to be charmed by the story of an underdog, someone who shouldn’t win but finds a way through resilience, determination or sometimes a genius loophole and a little bit of magic, and no film hits those attributes harder for me than Danny DeVito’s Matilda.

The zany adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 children’s novel came out in cinemas in December 1996, four months after I came into the world. The film, set (unlike the supremely British source text) in a leopard-print-clad edition of suburban California, focuses on the titular character (played by Mara Wilson), who grows up unseen and unheard by her grifter, TV-obsessed parents, Harry and Zinnia Wormwood, played by DeVito and his then-wife Rhea Perlman.

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Senator says Trump revisiting failed run against Biden ‘distracts from important things’ such as Iran war

Rather than continue fixating on the 2020 election defeat that ended his first presidency, Donald Trump could instead “do something positive”, including resolving the US war in Iran, Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman said in an interview on Sunday.

“I don’t know why the president is dragging up all this stuff,” Fetterman remarked on CNN’s State of the Union, three days after Trump dedicated a televised, primetime address to claims about Chinese meddling in the 2020 White House race that he lost to Joe Biden. “You’re the president. Do something positive – and you are talking about 2020; that’s been settled over six years ago.

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For those who are burned out, perimenopausal, or both, dancing all night can be a panacea. It’s great exercise, lowers stress, boosts energy and provides connection. No wonder so many are doing it

It’s 4am and I’m in a club – the first time I’ve done this in years. I’m 51 and in my sandwich era, meaning I’ve got teenage and elderly loved ones on my mind – a situation that generally calls for early nights. But when you’re responsibilities-maxxing, sometimes you need the opposite. A blowout. A huge, transcendent, resetting release. A rave.

I don’t know what took me so long to get around to it. Misplaced parental guilt? Internalised ageism? Exhaustion? It’s not as though I didn’t know other gen-Xers who have been regularly getting blissfully – ceremonially, even – lost in house, techno or drum’n’bass, and they’re not alone. A 2025 study by the University of Leeds went viral: “Women aged 40-65 are turning to raves for real mental health,” said one of many Instagram posts and press headlines. “Why many women over 40 still go to raves,” read another. But surely the question should be: why the hell wouldn’t they?

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Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains

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Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs.

The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from investors including Bezos and the government’s sovereign AI fund, valuing the two-year-old business at $2.6bn.

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Corporation pays tribute to ‘outstanding’ journalist who presented shows including Today and One O’Clock News

The journalist Edward Stourton has died aged 68, it has been announced.

The BBC Radio 4 presenter was best known for fronting current affairs programmes including Today, World at One and its religious and ethical current affairs series Sunday.

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For the second time in as many years, the US president made sure he was a part of a moment of triumph he had little to do with

He did it again. There was a world championship trophy, waiting to be held aloft at the same gargantuan stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. There was Gianni Infantino, waiting alongside the US president. And there was that same US president, Donald Trump, fresh off a round of stadium-wide booing and jeering, handing off the trophy with Infantino and then staying stubbornly in the frame as another team enjoyed the pinnacle of their professional careers with an octogenarian standing awkwardly in the shot.

Should we be surprised? Marc Cucurella probably wasn’t – the defender was on stage for both occasions, first as a member of Chelsea as they lifted the 2025 Club World Cup, and then again on Sunday when Trump once again remained in the shot as Spain celebrated their World Cup victory.

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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Rob van Bree wordt de nieuwe chef van de Amsterdamse politie. Hij volgt per 14 december Peter Holla op, die met pensioen gaat. Van Bree werkte vijf jaar bij de Eenheid Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies, die zware en georganiseerde criminaliteit, terrorisme en buitenlandse inmenging bestrijdt. De politie meldt verder dat Van Bree zich heeft ingezet voor de verbetering van de werkcultuur bij de politie.

Holla zegt "heel blij" te zijn met Van Bree als zijn opvolger. "Ik heb er alle vertrouwen in dat hij de juiste man is op deze plek; hij verstaat zijn vak en weet wat er speelt binnen de organisatie en buiten op straat. Zijn ervaring en leiderschapsstijl passen goed bij de Eenheid Amsterdam."

Van Bree was eerder commandant van de mobiele eenheid en hoofd van de afdeling Operatiën in Noord-Holland en Midden-Nederland. Naast zijn werk studeerde hij politicologie aan de VU in Amsterdam.

Door de popo's van je bed gelicht worden, dat kennen we in Nederland van wanneer je bijvoorbeeld een fout grapje hebt gemaakt op YouTube of als je de burgemeester van Amsterdam gepersifleerd hebt, maar DSI-teams hebben het druk met een nieuwe ontwikkeling: swatting, oftewel een arrestatieteam naar iemands huis sturen om met diegene te sollen (vooral bekend van Amerikaanse streamers). Het is een rage, in ieder geval in zo'n mate dat politie en het OM ons willen WAARSCHUWEN dat wij dit NIET moeten doen. Dank en we noteren het. Hangt allemaal vooral samen met de jeugdige wereld van sadistische chatgroepen en dergelijken. Jong Nederland is kennelijk, als het niet bezig is met elkaar neersteken, neerschieten, wraakfilmen, plofkraken, uithalen of andere hobby's, elkaar massaal aan het chanteren met naaktbeelden om vervolgens een arrestatieteam op te trommelen. Vroeger hadden we knikkeren. Was ook leuk.

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handwritten on slide, “Roma and Leslie, 7-25-1966" date stamped on slide July 1966

Maxim Kravchuk, an aerodynamics specialist, works at the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, a Moscow-based research institution operating under the state space agency Roscosmos, Russian media reported.